News:
March 11, 2017
Member of Parliament (MP) for Okaikwei Central, Patrick Yaw Boamah has congratulated former President John Agyeikum Kufuor for turning eighty (80) on Saturday.
According to the Okaikwei Central MP, as a nation we have only three living former Presidents, we do not have to wait until something “happen to them when they are no more before we celebrate them”.
In an interview with journalists in Parliament he pointed out that as a country we must inculcate a habit of letting people know that we respect them for whatever good things they have done for our nation as former heads of state.
“Former President John Kufuor continues to serve this country, under his leadership we had a lot of social interventions, National Health Insurance, school feeding, Metro Mass Transport and the building of the Jubilee House which is currently the seat of government”.
Again the discovery of oil and cocoa production that went up from three hundred metric tons to seven eighty four and under his watch look at the number of banks that came into this country.He has done his part and has taken the initiative of setting up John Agyeikum foundation, he is putting up two Libraries, one at Legon and one at Kumasi KNUST.
Mr. Patrick Yaw Boamah appealed to government to support Ghana’s former Presidents with their foundations that would turn lives around from generations to generations and added that if we should prioritize well it should be captured in every annual budget of every government to support every former President.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com